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Peaceburg, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Anniston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36250. The Survey maps it on the Eulaton quadrangle. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Peaceburg within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kelly House, Peaceburg Road, Weaver, Calhoun County, AL
Kelly House, Peaceburg Road, Weaver, Calhoun County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

127 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Peaceburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,304 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20130908-001
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-13
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use800 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Peaceburg: 21 unknowns, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Clay, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ohatchee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wellington ProspectLead, Zinc, Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Donoho MineClayProducer
Pelham Range Lead ProspectLead, ZincOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite
Shirey Prospect No 2MicaProspect
Shirey Prospect No. 2MicaProspect
Unnamed MineClayPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Brook MountainIronUnknown
Cane Creek MinesIronPast Producer1840

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mahlep1.6 miles19
Melrose1.7 miles18
Bush1.8 miles19
Leatherwood2.4 miles19
Lowrimores Crossroads2.4 miles18
Bera (historical)2.4 miles19
Morrisville2.6 miles19
Alexandria2.7 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PeaceburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18387278The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156861. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.